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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 265, Issue 1, 209-213, 01, 1990

Purification and characterization of the yeast transcriptional activator GAL4

MR Parthun and JA Jaehning
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405.

We have purified extensively the transcriptional activator, GAL4, from a yeast strain overexpressing the gene product from the ADH1 promoter. Our purification followed GAL4 activity by its binding to a specific DNA target sequence, using filter binding assays. No specific binding activity was detected in extracts from a strain containing a disrupted copy of the GAL4 gene. The purification protocol included fractionation of a whole cell extract by ion-exchange and DNA-affinity chromatography on a column containing a 17-base pair oligomer encoding a near consensus GAL4 binding site. Two polypeptides co-eluted with the GAL4 DNA binding activity from the DNA-affinity column. One had an apparent molecular mass of 99 kDa (the predicted size of the GAL4 protein) and cross-reacted with antibodies raised against GAL4 epitopes from fusion proteins expressed in bacterial cells. The second polypeptide did not cross-react with the anti-GAL4 antibody and is presumed to be the GAL80 transcriptional repressor based on its size (48 kDa) and known physical association with the GAL4 protein. GAL4 binding activity elutes from a gel filtration column as a 155-kDa species suggesting that it exists in solution in a heterodimer complex of one GAL4 and one GAL80 molecule. The dissociation constant of the DNA-affinity-purified GAL4-GAL80 complex for a 900-base pair DNA fragment containing the UASGAL element from the GAL1-GAL10 divergent promoter was, Kd(effective) (0.15 M KCl) = 2.4 x 10(-9) M.
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